tar has multiple bad behaviors when creating an archive, resulting in an
archive that incorrectly represents soft links. Restoring from such an
archive results in an unusable system.
* tar incorrectly converts (almost) all soft links to point to a
single file in the archive
o I have s
Thanks for the quick response. I think I've cut this down even further
based on your suggestion. Here are the results, and some additional
context. Also, another problem with creating archives - very large
files are skipped.
i've seen this on Fedora Core 4; the report is on FC 6. (Yes, th
Timothe Litt wrote on Thu, Dec 01, 2022 at 04:14:42PM -0500:
> The attached "hardlink_strace.txt" comes from a simplified command to reduce
> volume, but it should show the same syscalls:
>
> ( cd / && strace 2>hardlink_strace.txt tar -cf - bin/awk bin/bash
> >/dev/null )
The fstatat64 structs r
